The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Has Obama been a good President? Paul Krugman thinks he has. In fact he thinks he is one of the three most important presidents in modern history, mainly because of what he has faced and what he has accomplished. First
There are times when you just can’t get it right, when you just can’t please anyone, let alone everyone. Arthur L.Caplan’s column in the 8/6/14 Washington Post is a perfect example of that. The piece us titled, Why do
The Republicans, led by Botched up Boehner, have decided that there isn’t enough traction in the immigration question to get them through the 2014 election. This is mainly because they realize that their position won’t get them any new votes, especially from
Watched a commercial for Koch Industries the other day on which they bragged about being all over the nation (like a huge octopus), and how they have created over 60,000 jobs for Americans. This is the biggest privately owned company in
There’s a lot o noise being made this week about Democratic advisors and appointees, leaving the administration and hooking up with anti union organizations. One is David Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager, who is joining Uber, a limo service that
The big problem right now, is, of course, in Iraq – again. The President is doing the right thing at this point but it still seems short sighted. His plan to supply the Kurdish people trapped on Sinidar Mountain with
In the midst of the whole Bergdahl mess another pair of lost sheep have come to the fore. In 2012 Caitlin Coleman, who was pregnant and her husband Joshua Boyle decided that it was a constructive idea to go hiking around
This Friday July 4, 2014, I sat in Avery Fischer Hall at Lincoln Center and listened joyfully as the NY Philharmonic, about one hundred strong, played a brilliant version of the National Anthem. As I listened, all I could think
There’s been an awful uproar of late over the IRS investigations being conducted by our witch hunting congressional committee headed by that salivating bottom feeder, Daryl Issa,. The head of the IRS has been called a liar, which he probably
Notice how Bowe Bergdhal has disappeared completely from the news? Ever wonder why? Maybe it’s because it was never that big of a story after all. Once he was rescued there wasn’t anything to say. But the GOP had a lot to